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Have you ever thought about how many things you grew up believing that you now know are untrue?  You don’t have to go back to bloodletting days to see how far science has come.  In the early 1900’s we believed radioactive drinks had healing properties and heroin was sold as a cough suppressant FOR CHILDREN!  […]

When I was a small child, I was lucky enough to be poor.  So, we ate a lot of fresh vegetables from our garden, fruit from trees in the back yard, eggs from the chicken coop, fish from the freezer that Dad had caught in a stream, meat from hunting trips and dairy from a

Exercise, the very word conjures up a bad experience for me.  As a child I loved cruising on my yellow Schwinn and won neighborhood contests for the longest hula hoop sessions.  As a pre-teen, I never sat still and developed a weird attraction to Jack Lalane that was followed by a disdain for calisthenics at

I didn’t do myself a lot of favors in the beginning of my quest to change our diets.  I thought I needed to cook every meal from scratch and I soon became exhausted.  Then we would ‘cheat’ by eating something not really legal although it was still vegan.  Finally, I realized I couldn’t keep up

Did you know that most of the drugs we currently use in the practice of modern medicine were derived from or copied from herbs, spices and plants.  Before doctors or drug stores, every culture had its healers, medicine women or grandmothers who administered special teas, tinctures or rubs drawn from the earth’s bounty to cure

I grew up in a home that always said grace before a meal, and we have tried to maintain that habit in our own home.  My father-in-law was fond of ending his grace by asking God to keep us mindful of the needs of others.  What a precious heritage.  Saying grace to promote mindful eating

You probably hear people say ‘I eat clean’ and you might wonder what in the world they mean by that.  And like everything else, it can mean a lot of things to different people.  For me it means WFPB, eating foods as close to nature as possible.  The only processing is the preparation I do

Bioavailability is a common word with the medical experts I am listening to about nutrition.  And while I understood it’s meaning; I didn’t recognize its importance or how to utilize it.  I quickly learned that how you prepare something or in what form you ingest it can dramatically impact your body’s ability to fully utilize

Today I am very thankful that I made two hearty soups last week and took the time to freeze some of each for a ‘rainy day’.  Most of the time, the items I freeze spend weeks if not a couple months in the freezer and come out on one of those days when I don’t

I started my overhaul of our habits with probably the most important lifestyle choice for healthy longevity, our diets. I began by picking a couple things I would eliminate from our diet and a couple I would add.  So out from the pantry and out the door went all our sweet or salty snacks.  As